A chieftain named Thorir the Hound (or Tore Hund) held great influence in the northernmost stretches, known as Halogaland, of the Norwegian countryside during...
King Cunincpert became the ruler of the Lombards in Italy around 688 after succeeding his father, King Perctarit (r. 671-688). Upon Cunincpert’s ascendance to...
A chieftain named Thorir the Hound (or Tore Hund) held great influence in the northernmost stretches, known as Halogaland, of the Norwegian countryside during...
Arrian (c. 90-173+)
"Luck, remember, is an unpredictable thing, and against what it may bring no man has any defence."
From Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander (Book 5),...
Pope Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
"Raise the moral standards of your subjects by your own innocence of life, encouraging, warning, persuading, correcting, and...
This painting, by the French artist François-André Vincent (c. 1746-1816), strives to depict a scene of the ancient Greek philosopher, Democritus (c. 460-370 BCE),...
This painting, by the Italian artist Vincenzo Camuccini (c. 1771-1844), depicts the ancient Roman poet, Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE), reading sections of his epic...
William Shakespeare (c. 1564 - 1616)
"Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes,...
A chieftain named Thorir the Hound (or Tore Hund) held great influence in the northernmost stretches, known as Halogaland, of the Norwegian countryside during...
This painting, by the French artist François-André Vincent (c. 1746-1816), strives to depict a scene of the ancient Greek philosopher, Democritus (c. 460-370 BCE),...
Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE)
"God takes aim
at the ones who murder many;
the swarthy Furies stalk the man
gone rich beyond all rights - with a twist
of...
This drawing, by the Swedish artist Johan Tobias Sergel (c. 1740-1814), re-creates the dramatic argument that occurred between King Agamemnon and Achilles in the...
